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Dead strawberry plants with fruit still on them.

"Not having restaurants, cafes, bakeries, cake shops as outlets is also having a pretty massive impact."
An older man dressed in blue farm work gear and brown boots kneels between rows of freshly planted strawberries. He smiles

"We can not operate — getting a return of $1 a punnet — and not lose money, so that's why, on our farm, we've decided that we're going to spray out some blocks next week."
A one dollar sign above strawberries in punnets in a supermarket

Sliced strawberries with baked brie.

"The best thing that people could do to help us at the moment is go and grab a couple of punnets while they're at such a good price,"
Mr Schultz said.

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A grey haired lady in a pink shirt holds up a tray of strawberries in a field.

A lady holds up a cone of ice cream with colourful trays of ice cream in a fridge.

"People are prepared to pay. They only pick what they want and a lot of them don't like to buy from the supermarket,"
Ms McMartin said.
$15/kg pick your own strawberry sign, which is itself the shape of a strawberry.

A man looks at strawberries growing under plastic. He is wearing a hi-vis vest and blue-grey T-shirt underneath it

"At the moment, I know there are quite a few Queensland growers who are already spraying out either some or all of their crops and that is around four weeks early for those guys. So, we are hoping that is going to help with the [market] situation on the east coast,"
Mr Michael said.

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